From the Leaker: Edwards to be Atty Gen for Obama?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_commentary/commentary_by_robert_d_novak/attorney_general_edwards

Attorney General Edwards?
An Inside Report by Robert Novak
Friday, January 25, 2008
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards will be named attorney general in an Obama administration.

Installation at the Justice Department of multimillionaire trial lawyer Edwards would please not only the union leaders supporting him for president but organized labor in general. The unions relish the prospect of an unequivocal labor partisan as the nation's top legal officer.

In public debates, Obama and Edwards often seem to bond together in alliance against front-running Sen. Hillary Clinton. While running a poor third, Edwards could collect a substantial bag of delegates under the Democratic Party's proportional representation. Edwards then could try to turn his delegates over to Obama in the still unlikely event of a deadlocked Democratic National Convention.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I doubt it. nt

[Snotcicles]

2. Wrong. John Edwards president of the United States. They are so afraid of that

they will make crap up to try to get people to not vote for him. That scum Novak is gutter trash.

[Honeycombe8]

12. Please wake up. This is getting sad. Edwards knows he can't win.

So should his supporters. Admit it, face it, and move on.

I had to do that, when I supported Wesley Clark.

He's not even a shoe-in to win his birth state of South Carolina. He was won no state yet. Not one. And it is virtually impossible for him to win Super Tuesday, not having won any state before that time.

He knows it. His best shot, and what he is in fact doing, is trying to maintain (or get) enough delegates to give him some trading power with the winner. He will trade his delegates for ....something. It will not be the V.P. slot, since he lost when he did that. The winner cannot take a chance by taking on a prior loser.

A.G. sounds appropriate. Like Bobby Kennedy.

[gristy]

3. The framing continues...

"multimillionaire trial lawyer Edwards"

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. ...

:thumbsup:

[ladjf]

7. Please don't even try to start listing why Edwards would not

be qualified to be A.G. in face of the fact that following Gonzales and Mukasey, the DOJ is in total disgrace and disarray. We would need someone dedicated to cleaning up the department and punishing those who put where it now is.

I have no idea whether Edwards would even take the job. But, he seems to be perfectly suited for it.

[gristy]

10. I agree with you that he would do a great job.

Not sure why you thought I would try to start listing why Edwards would not be qualified to be A.G.

[ladjf]

13. I thought that your remark about the "millionaire.. " was implying

that he wouldn't be a good choice. I apologize for my careless read of your post.

[protect our future]

5. Yes! I heard about it on CSPAN this morning and again on MSNBC.

But I didn't know until now the source was Novak.

That old goat finally leaked something wonderful!

[ClericJohnPreston]

6. I've lost count

Is this wishful thinking thread #5 or 25 on this same subject?

Be adraid OP. JRE is going for nothing less than the nomination. Save all your wishful non-thinking for the Obama "wishin and hopin" campaign.

[Nimrod2005]

8. This is a bullshit story

[annabanana]

9. I'm sorry... Are there TWO Robert Novaks?

Why the hell would ANYONE quote that undead asshole on this site?

[Honeycombe8]

11. Cool, if true. n t